This was mentioned today in our lecture class. You can make posters for presentations, whatever...it's relatively easy to figure out and the graphics are adorable/hilarious. My artsy students would probably love this.
I found this site primarily because I hated inspiration and Word's attempts at making webs for brainstorming. This site is a really quick, easy web maker for brainstorming- and the product looks pretty nice, too! You can export anything you create as a .jpeg file that you can save, print, whatever.
A great site for simple blogging with your students. As the teacher, you have the option to view your students work, edit it, and approve it before it is posted. Students can also comment on their classmates' work.
Make Beliefs is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip.
This website is more for younger children. It has some good ideas for holidays. You need an account, but you can see the smaller versions for the general ideas.
CSPAN has some cool free material and lesson plans for teaching civics. Right now they have some cool free materials about elections and the electoral process.
Nicole is an ESL teacher at School 45. She has a lot of information about teaching adults primarily refugees. Her lessons for an entire ESL curriculum if you ever need it.
A great preschool/early elementary site with lesson themes and free printouts. Great crafts, holiday ideas, alphabet practice, and vocabulary and literacy printables.
Freakin' sweet digital grade book. Easy to use and free!
This was mentioned today in our lecture class. You can make posters for presentations, whatever...it's relatively easy to figure out and the graphics are adorable/hilarious. My artsy students would probably love this.
Huge database of movies, lesson plans, and ideas for your classroom...all aligned with common core!
Great for content integration in the ESL classroom with a wide variety of lessons in Science, History, English, etc. Also great for SIFE.
I found this site primarily because I hated inspiration and Word's attempts at making webs for brainstorming. This site is a really quick, easy web maker for brainstorming- and the product looks pretty nice, too! You can export anything you create as a .jpeg file that you can save, print, whatever.
A great site for simple blogging with your students. As the teacher, you have the option to view your students work, edit it, and approve it before it is posted. Students can also comment on their classmates' work.
Make Beliefs is a free comic strip creation tool that provides students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for building their own comic strips. Make Beliefs provides students with a pre-drawn characters and dialogue boxes which they can insert into each box of their comic strip.
This website is more for younger children. It has some good ideas for holidays. You need an account, but you can see the smaller versions for the general ideas.
Verizon's collection of teacher lesson ideas.
CSPAN has some cool free material and lesson plans for teaching civics. Right now they have some cool free materials about elections and the electoral process.
Science websites and ideas.
Information and some materials about dealing with Refugee youth. They also have some webinars and other exciting things.
You can browse by subject area (i.e. art, assessment, first day of school...) and teachers write in lesson ideas.
Lesson ideas from the BBC. There are some cool lessons, lesson plans, and games on the site.
Nicole is an ESL teacher at School 45. She has a lot of information about teaching adults primarily refugees. Her lessons for an entire ESL curriculum if you ever need it.
Free Worksheets.
For young learners to play when there is down time.- for students
Vocabulary Practice for a good cause- a good website for students to go on.
Vocabulary Practice for students
Vocabulary website for students
A safe website for students.
A safe website for students.
A safe website for students.
A safe website for students.
A great preschool/early elementary site with lesson themes and free printouts. Great crafts, holiday ideas, alphabet practice, and vocabulary and literacy printables.